Economy Booming? State Funding Up? Who Knew?

The economy is booming and states are flush with cash to help the poor and underprivileged? Wow! Who knew? Last thing I heard from the moonbat colony is that we're all going to hell in a handbasket. You think the moonies will change their tunies?

States' Coffers Swelling Again After Struggles - New York Times: After four years of tight budgets and deepening debt, most states from California to Maine are experiencing a marked turnaround in their fiscal fortunes, with billions of dollars more in tax receipts than had been projected pouring into coffers around the country.
The windfall is a result of both a general upturn in the economy and conservative budgeting by state officials in recent years, and it is leading to the restoration of school funding, investments in long-neglected roads and bridges, debt reduction, and the return of money borrowed from cities and counties.